Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

Jilin Jien, which bought the Québec Lithium mine and lithium carbonate conversion plant from its creditors in 2016, is understood to have entered bankruptcy in China and had struggled to raise the funds to complete the re-commissioning.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2020

Many market players look to Chinese lithium spot prices as a bellwether of market health and therefore the continued decline of lithium prices in China has put mounting pressure on the global lithium market, CRU says. Chinese EV sales through to July totalled 696,000 this year. Although this marks an impressive 41.5%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

However, Benchmark points out, known domestic Chinese spodumene and other hard rock resources are low-quality, a key reason why there has been an increasing reliance by Chinese converters on Australia for supply instead. Building upstream of the EV battery supply chain takes time and rarely goes to plan.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Chinese EV sales through to July totalled 696,000 this year, an impressive 41.5% However, the analysts nonetheless believe that low spodumene prices and ample conversion capacity will cause prices to continue their decline in the short-term. Portable electronics have long been the mainstay of lithium demand.

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